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Living in the Cloud: A JoliCloud Chrome Experiment

"Most people don't make their work machine their test
bed, but my work tends to be my tests. For the next couple of
weeks, I'll be working and blogging exclusively with JoliCloud
running on my MacBook and using Google Chrome web apps. What's the
deal?

"Not all of us got shiny new Cr-48 Netbooks from Google, but we
do have the next best thing for free. It's JoliCloud, which
emulates a lot of the same thing Chrome OS does. The only
difference is an Ubuntu base and a lot more access to "under the
hood" stuff.

"But here's the point: JoliCloud runs Chromium (the developer
build of Chrome) and that means it runs the web apps that Google so
proudly displayed. It also has the same "look and feel" web-only
cloud-based application processes that Chrome OS is setting out to
achieve. So ostensibly, my experience on JoliCloud should translate
over to Chrome OS in a snap."